North Carolina · Nonprofit
MEREDITH COLLEGE
MEREDITH COLLEGE (North Carolina) receives grants from 108 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,222,354 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,891,659). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $87M
- Funders on record
- 108
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $174M
What Meredith College does
Mission
Meredith College, grounded in the liberal arts and committed to professional preparation, educates and inspires students to live with integrity and provide leadership for the needs, opportunities and challenges of society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Meredith College challenges students to discover what makes them strong, build on those strengths, and prepare to make a positive impact on the world. With more than 90 majors and minors, over 30 graduate and certificate programs, and strongpoints, a powerful strengths-focused personal coaching initiative, it's no wonder u.s. News, the princeton review, and niche have all named meredith a "best college."
$65,030,555 spentof which $31,043,908 as grants$58,733,197 earned by the program89% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprises: the college provides a number of services that support learning, build community and enhance the overall quality of student life. These include, but are not limited to, residential housing, apartments, dining, campus store and mail services.
$8,242,439 spent$9,522,434 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $73,272,994.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $201M to $230M (+14%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 3% · 2021 3% · 2022 5% · 2023 8% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of MEREDITH COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Charles A Royal Iii
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 55 funders, grant income rose $1.8M → $2.9M.
29 of 108 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MEREDITH COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 108 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MEREDITH COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
62% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MEREDITH COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 34% · 2019 27% · 2020 22% · 2021 20% · 2022 15% · 2023 34% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
45% of MEREDITH COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
65% of MEREDITH COLLEGE's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MEREDITH COLLEGE's funding base is broadening — from 23 funders to 55 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MEREDITH COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.2M on record.
- Department of Education$8.3M
- National Science Foundation$997k
- Department of Health and Human Services$853k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MEREDITH COLLEGE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Cooperating Raleigh Colleges · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trust (4) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MEREDITH COLLEGE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MEREDITH COLLEGE?
- MEREDITH COLLEGE (North Carolina) receives grants from 108 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,222,354 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,891,659). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEREDITH COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 108 organizations giving $14,222,354 in grants to MEREDITH COLLEGE, 75 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEREDITH COLLEGE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,891,659 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEREDITH COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 108 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing